I’ve just finished watching Confessions of a Brain Surgeon. Anyone watched it? Interesting from a neurological and interpersonal perceptive, from the other side.
On BBC iPlayer. Thoughts?
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As an extra note: he is 74, quite young by today’s standards. Obviously, the end comes to us all but just an interesting mortality side note. I guess, possibly relating to @ManjiB post on preparing for the inevitable with his mum.
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And just to add to that thought on preparing, I quote Woody Allen, “ I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens. It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.”
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Not seen it yet Rupert. I’ll add it to my list of ToDos.
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It’s okay, very sanitised BBC but worth a watch.
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I think I saw this one. The retired surgeon who went back to meet some of his previous patients and in particular the mother of one patient who he hadn’t been able to help.
It was fascinating.
And I am with Woody Allen 
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Hi @Rups Just watched this, a fascinating watch. Consultants are human after all 
. Thank you for sharing.
Regards Sue
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Thank you for the recommendation fascinating watching it now.we miss you @rups,@bobbi talks about you during his Jitsi meetings made up of the handful of people on here that he’s drawn to.
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I hope to get to one soon.
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I recommend also on BBC Arena my brain after the rupture
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Diolch, I’ll have a search on iPlayer for it.
Aye, I enjoyed that. Just finished watching it, quite poignant and full of pathos. I find watching or reading stroke stories bitter-sweet, they provide reflections in my own progress but also remind me of the great upheaval we have all had to endure. You should create a post in the general category for this documentary as I feel it will resonate with forum users who might not be scrolling through the threads. Very good find.
I’ve just watched it and thought that it was so sad that he carries all the sadness of patients he feels he failed but struggles to comprehend how many lives he’s changed for the better. It’s good that he doesn’t just see patients as anonymous faces though
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I suffer from many negative past thoughts and I sort of felt empathy with that. I think it is an ego thing, from my own experience I’ve always had an overactive ego and with that comes thinking back to when that has been compromised by mistakes or stupidity, in my case.
As an example, as a teacher, I’ve always felt bad about the students I felt I had failed rather than the ones who had achieved what they wanted. I never learned to let go and still to this day there are students I think about who I could have done more for. However, it is less about them and more about me, I feel, so when he mentions his arrogance, I tend to relate because I feel much the same way. I was an arrogant school teacher who was more interested in my own accolades as a teacher than perhaps the act of teaching in itself, not absolute, but a delicate balancing act.
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